Empower Your Inner Architect: Building a Life of Epic Wellness

I'd like to introduce you to Flo.  Nope. Not the same Flo all you ladies think I am referring to! There is a special Flo in the nursing world--she's the one that pretty much established nursing as a respected profession. I'm talking about Florence Nightingale. Now, doesn't her name just SOUND heavenly? I mean, how could anything go wrong if you were being cared for by Nurse Nightingale? Flo was of the mindset that every woman at sometime in her life would need to take on a nursing role. Think about it. How many of you have children? Are taking care of elderly parents? Babysit a younger brother or sister? Flo wanted ALL women to benefit from her discoveries so they could care for others. October 16-22 is International Infection Prevention Week. We are all exhausted in our conversations about COVID 19, so we aren't even going to address that. I thought Flo and I could bring you back to the basics of infection prevention so you can see where it all started.  It was dur...

October is a huge month in the world of mental health. Mental Illness Awareness Week is October 4-10. National Depression Screening Day falls on October 6 th . October 10 th recognizes World Mental Health Day, and October is even heralded as National Bullying Prevention Month—a practice that has tremendous damaging effects on the mental health of anyone, but especially our youth. Now, my intention is NOT to steal the thunder of your Mental Health Monday Blogger. In fact, as of this moment, I give mental health over to its rightful day of the week. I only needed to mention mental health as a lead-in to my topic today. But I AM going to dip back into Mental Health’s September subject to help support today’s health discussion. Now, remember when I said that I can find humor in any life experiences? I lied. Someone very close to me is amazing. This someone has a great family, supportive parents, loving siblings, good friends, and a pain-in-the-butt dog that will only behave for he...